Reports: US Airstrikes Killed 230 Civilians in Mosul Overnight

As the US airstrikes in the Iraqi city of Mosul are increasingly concentrated around densely populated neighborhoods in the city’s west, the death toll from those airstrikes in spiraling rapidly out of control, with the most recent figures out of the area suggesting around 230 civilians were killed overnight in US and coalition strikes in just a single neighborhood.

That’s an enormous toll, of course, but is reported from several sources telling largely the same story, including that a single US airstrike against a large building full of civilians in Mosul killed over 130 people, while the other 100 or so were killed in the surrounding area.

Central Command said that they were “aware of the loss of life” and were carrying out “further investigation,” while insisting that all of their strikes against Mosul overnight “comply with the Law of Armed Conflict.” Centcom’s official report for the overnight strikes claimed they’d hit “11 fighting positions” and didn’t mention killing hundreds of civilians.

Britain’s Daily Telegraph reported that the civilian death toll was mostly women and children, saying that the bulk of the bodies were pulled from just three adjoining residences in the Jadida neighborhood. They speculated the civilians were “human shields” for ISIS snipers in the area.

That would be an awful lot of human shields, of course, and there wouldn’t be much point of stashing them inside buildings where the US forces clearly either didn’t know where they were or didn’t feel it amounted to a deterrent to bombing those buildings anyhow.

If the toll is ultimately confirmed by Centcom, which is a huge “if” given how often well documented incidents never end up on their official reports, it would roughly double the number of civilians the US has admitted to killing in Iraq and Syria over the ISIS war. NGOs have suggested the US strikes have killed well over 2,000 civilians already, and that’s not including last night’s massive toll.

Author: Jason Ditz

Too many innocent people are getting killed under Trump’s military command.

Don

Americans are now learning what Trump meant when he said he could win the wars. Huge military force is what is not being discussed on this board. But you’ll notice how it’s being hinted at. Ark Ark above is begging the question but is either not bright enough to come to the conclusion, or, is pretending that it isn’t the only solution.

Trump’s intention is to make it a fight against Islam and he’s said as much. And his supporters are obviously willing participants in his plan.

Ark Ark

Trump said he’d end/stop getting involved in the regime change wars, but he said he’d “bomb the S out of isis” i don’t think he wants a clash of civilisations (some of his advisors probably do), i think he really believes the war on terror can be won, but it’s an impossibility, you can’t win it because you can never declare it over, how can you claim to have defeated an enemy that nobody can actually see ? sure you can stop them from attaining a state, but these groups don’t need a state to survive and thrive.

Trump’s intention is to make it a fight against Islam and he’s said as
much. And his supporters are obviously willing participants in his plan.

And that’s the most scary part of this deranged presidency.

cyndyt

Wait until their kids are forced to go die in these illegal wars. They will be singing another song then

JimBass56

True. But he’s got a long way to go to catch up to his predecessor.

wars r u.s.

There should be a running count. I’d say the Donald might have a slight lead at equal times in their presidencies.

MissV

The U.S. learns nothing from history. As in Vietnam, the U.S. military is destroying ________ (fill in the latest victimized country) in order to save it.

The U.S. of Amnesia is alive, even if not well.

Don

“Islam” fits in the blank space. Remember what Obama told your people about making it a fight against Islam instead of keeping it a fight against Islamic terrorists?

David S

Good to see that EVERY US president/emperor in the 21st century is up to the task of being a war criminal (just like virtually every president/emperor of the 20th century). The US government, making thousands more terrorists, one bomb at a time.

The hypocrisy of the media and of the USA is absolutely obscene.The same people who “cried” for Aleppo are committing the most barbaric crimes.It is not a surprise for the USA behavior;they did the same during WWII ,including Hiroshima and Nagasaki.But the silence of the American population is really scarry. They all are accomplices and sooner or later those crimes will visit them.

EME

the silence of the American population is really scarry…

It may appear that way in the corporate MSM which is the
Pentagon’s pro-war propaganda machine.

My friends and I who support organizations like Code Pink,
and Iraq Vets Against the War, receive little or no coverage
in the MSM. The coverage that ‘we’ do receive is ‘negative’.

I attended a peaceful rally in Philadelphia, PA. Once I
returned home and turned on the tube, the MSM already
told ‘us’ masses that the ‘same’ anti-war rally I attended
turned violent. Supposedly, a few bottles were thrown at
some of Philly’s finest on patrol.

This was a complete lie concocted by the MSM.
However, ‘we’ are out there and will continue to be in the
near future. That’s of course Trump doesn’t have us hauled
away to a concentration camp.

EME

US Airstrikes Killed 230 Civilians in Mosul Overnight…

The Pentagon has already ‘shrugged’ off this latest atrocity
as ‘collateral’ damage in its effort to make the world ‘safe’
for democracy and:

‘America’s commit to the defense of ‘freedom’ worldwide’

InalienableWrights

Looks like Mr Trump has become a war criminal, just like Obama, and Bush…
The Russians have fought ISIS without this huge loss of civilian life.

– US sends more troops in = US troops get killed + ISIS get to say “the christians are coming” and galvanise more young muslims to joint them = ISIS victory

– US pulls out = ISIS exploit power vacuum gain back lost territory within a few months. = ISIS victory

pretty difficult to see how this is ever going to end! how can it ever end when you can never be sure if you’ve killed all the enemy ? plus you’re making more enemies whilst killing your current enemy!

the only way the US doesn’t lose this is if they never stop fighting :- /

it’s a cluster**k!

Don

There’s no doubt it will never end if the people of America follow Trump’s lead and make it a fight against Islam.

Trump’s not going to waste time messing around with selective drone strikes the way Obama did. He’s going to get the job done and make America great again.
There’s little doubt that Iraqi citizens are deliberately standing under US bombs. The same tactic used against the Nazis over 70 years ago.

unam_sanctum

Americans and Iraqi forces are cowards, they would rather kill innocent women and children than fight like men.

Amrik Morel

A distraction to move the i$raeli Secret Intelligence Service fighters into Syria.